If you’re not familiar with Raphael Sirtoli, he’s a super bright, well-educated researcher and science writer who’s currently pursuing his PhD in the Behavioral and Molecular Lab at the University of Minho.

There, his focus is on combining neuroscience and metabolism to understand the side-effects of antipsychotics and whether or not a keto diet can help mitigate them.

Raphael has also studied the metabolic theory of cancer using breast cancer cells, and that’s still just the beginning of his incredible professional career.

Raphael is also the co-founder of a food tracking app called Nutrita.

Unlike most of these apps on the market, Raphael’s focuses on rating foods based on their nutrition score, among other things, so that you can increase your overall nutrient intake instead of worrying about calories only.

Through his app, he’s helping people reach their health goals by focusing more on behavioral changes that will keep them feeling satisfied instead of hungry for junk foods.

By tuning into the episode, you’ll hear about these topics and so much more:

Raphael’s background and how he found himself down this path of health

Whether he shifted his viewpoints after diving deep into the research

The first three foods Ralph eliminated from his diet and the one he wishes he got rid of sooner

Why seed oils are actually worse for you than sugar

The negative impacts of consuming too much linoleic acid and why so many people are unknowingly doing this

Why you should only focus on one of four key areas when it comes to your health goals and how you’ll see a bigger improvement by doing this

Why tracking what you eat shouldn’t be focused on calories

Why most food tracking apps are garbage

Why calorie counting is an inaccurate way of controlling body fat mass

The protein targets that people should shoot for to lose fat

Why Raphael emphasizes a higher protein intake than most

How Raphael’s app ditches food measuring and what it does instead

Why Ralph believes everyone can do well on different degrees of carb restriction

Why you may see results from restricting calories and why that’s not what’s causing the results

Ralph also explains more about his app’s keto and nutrient density score, including how both of these are measured